In an election held during the 2011 Catholic Health Assembly in Atlanta, June 5-7, Sr. Judith Ann Karam, CSA, president and CEO of the Sisters of Charity Health System, was installed to the Catholic Health Association’s Board of Trustees.

ATLANTA (June 6, 2011) — Robert V. Stanek, retired president and CEO, Catholic Health East, Newtown Square, Pa., has been installed as chairperson of the Board of Trustees of the Catholic Health Association of the United States (CHA) for fiscal year 2011-12.

In an election held during the 2011 Catholic Health Assembly in Atlanta, June 5-7, Joseph R. Swedish, president and chief executive officer, Trinity Health, Novi, Mich., was chosen vice chairperson/ chairperson-elect for fiscal year 2011-12. He will lead the CHA board in fiscal year 2012-13.

The board's role includes developing CHA's strategic directions, ensuring CHA's fidelity to its mission, stewarding CHA's resources and performing other governance activities to support and strengthen the Catholic health ministry in the United States.

The Catholic Health Association of the United States (CHA), founded in 1915, supports the Catholic health ministry’s commitment to improve the health status of communities and create quality and compassionate health care that works for everyone. The Catholic health ministry is the nation's largest group of not-for-profit health systems and facilities that, along with their sponsoring organizations, employ more than 750,000 women and men who deliver services combining advanced technology with the Catholic caring tradition.

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